Avoiding AD?

ishilb14_ESO

So I've noticed that in the early EST AM hours (4am - 8am) on a daily basis, DC actively avoids fighting AD past Aleswell; pushing past Aleswell and constantly into EP and just actively avoiding anything south of Aleswell. Is DC afraid of directly confronting AD players? DC hardly even pushes into resources owned by AD on EP keeps.

koby-xxrwb17_ESO

Fights always seem to be cleaner and more enjoyable when fighting EP, both sides seem more or less evenly matched. As an Australian player I can say that around that time fighting EP is probably the best PvPing everyday

NativeJoe

EP = Hive mind. Low skill levels by and large but can amass massive amounts of skyrim kidos to run around in rampaging bands and left unchecked they will turn the map red.

AD: Min maxers faction because they have the best racial sets in the game by default. Your less likly to run into rampaging bands of them, but should u push them back far enough you'll get the wrath of their elites and gank squads will be on the prowl hunting down respawners. seriously... like 60% of this group is NB's...if not more. Left unchecked...AD will not gather major raids and will instead succumb to their elitist nature and split off into small groups of gank squads and go AP or telvar stone farm. rarly when left alone will AD actually activly start taking keeps. ( my friend literally has a screen shot from one of his AD toons of 15 nightblades standing around in stealth around 1 guy sieging a keep. )

If you where DC, who would u go after?

Ourorboros

Getting steam-rolled by a two-raid, bat-swarming, det-popping bunch of bananas is fighting? The lag from this is more deadly than any skills.

Aquanova

If I were GM of either of my PvP guilds I would only push AD. Not because I'm former EP, but because I came to DC for the challenge. If you enjoy making AP off of inexperienced player's who have yet to learn how to PvP over an experienced well seasoned enemy, then shame on you and the faction. I will not participate in farming pugs and the inexperienced.

AbraXuSeXile

Its because of the stupid map and uts layout most will go in a straight line unless objective based guild. If no guild groups up dc will always go right ep will always go left.

ishilb14_ESO

NativeJoe wrote: »

EP = Hive mind. Low skill levels by and large but can amass massive amounts of skyrim kidos to run around in rampaging bands and left unchecked they will turn the map red.

AD: Min maxers faction because they have the best racial sets in the game by default. Your less likly to run into rampaging bands of them, but should u push them back far enough you'll get the wrath of their elites and gank squads will be on the prowl hunting down respawners. seriously... like 60% of this group is NB's...if not more. Left unchecked...AD will not gather major raids and will instead succumb to their elitist nature and split off into small groups of gank squads and go AP or telvar stone farm. rarly when left alone will AD actually activly start taking keeps. ( my friend literally has a screen shot from one of his AD toons of 15 nightblades standing around in stealth around 1 guy sieging a keep. )

If you where DC, who would u go after?

So you're reinforcing my point that DC players are afraid of AD and thus prefer to attack EP. Works for me. And speaking of hive-mind, isn't that why most DC players think Chalman is one of their home keeps? lol

Pchela

It is odd to me that many who rerolled DC for the challenge would rather pick on the obviously weaker faction than go after the challenge they were looking for.

ishilb14_ESO

Pchela wrote: »

It is odd to me that many who rerolled DC for the challenge would rather pick on the obviously weaker faction than go after the challenge they were looking for.

Most of those players that rerolled to DC are baddies, but alas, EP cannot hold against both factions at once all the time when they have the same pop as each of the other factions.

DC players always contract a condition, since the start of the game, that makes them color blind so that yellow and blue look the same, thus they only see red and always push in the direction of EP. That's the conclusion I've come to because I can't think of any rational reason other than most DC players being stupid, but that can't be true right? ;-)

MountainHound

Fighting EP is less laggy. Of late AD has alot on that spams steel tornado so I know why people would rather choose EP.

PosternHouse

The OP in this thread seems to really be saying: "Stop attacking us DC, AD are the real bad guys here!" Sorry you can't hang. Red is as valid of a target as yellow.

Akinos

This is just some random screenshot I decided to take one day this month....whether or not there truly is a green alliance or if DC is really avoiding AD, whatever the case, nobody can deny that EP on Azura's Star gets it way worse then the other two factions even though we've been in 3rd place the entire campaign. Almost every time I log into Azura all we have is Arrius...or less.

_Chaos

lol @ this entire thread, so much stupid I must go before I get banned again.

ChrisXO

Akinos wrote: »

Arrius lumbermill is an AD home resource, this is unacceptable!

Crown

MountainHound wrote: »

Fighting EP is less laggy. Of late AD has a lot on that spams steel tornado so I know why people would rather choose EP.

The AD response to this statement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EoAHdwGBvU

zyk

MountainHound wrote: »

Fighting EP is less laggy. Of late AD has alot on that spams steel tornado so I know why people would rather choose EP.

MountainHound wrote: »

Rez any dead DC!
Steel tornado in a 3v1!
Run them out of Azura!
TROLL THEM OUT OF THE GAME!

For this is DC, FOR THIS IS OUR AZURA STAR!

If you want to be involved/interested, join our PVP groups, type LFG in zone or type chuck, hd55/hd54, ak, fp, jw or many of the other strings that are starting to come back from out of the sewers. The guilds are willing to help, the guilds are willing to teach!

We rise as a zerg, WE DIE AS A ZERG!

Most delusional guild NA.

PhatGrimReaper

Ourorboros wrote: »

Getting steam-rolled by a two-raid, bat-swarming, det-popping bunch of bananas is fighting? The lag from this is more deadly than any skills.

LMAO at the suggestion of 2 Raids of AD stacked during the Oceanic timezone.

There are normally a max of two organised AD groups in Aus/NZ evening time.... Nocturnal (4-10 man) & M12 (8-Full).... there are exactly two times when we have been "stacked" together and not moved away from one another in the last month.. one was at bleakers when both groups totalled 16-20 peeps farmed 40+ and a final emp keep a couple of weeks ago.

Do I sometimes run a full raid in Oceanis time? - when I can, absolutely!

Do we have the numerical advantage 90% of the time? - No, anyone who has seen the 40 strong rabble of disorganised DC milling around outside Nickle for hours on end knows what I'm saying.

The population is actually fairly balanced in Azura's during Oceanic Primetime, the difference is in organisation. EP & DC only have an large organised presence 2-3 nights a week, the rest of the time it's smaller groups and the almighty pug zerg which is unfortunate.

ChrisXO wrote: »

Akinos wrote: »

Arrius lumbermill is an AD home resource, this is unacceptable!

Can confirm Arrius LM is an AD Home Keep!!

seka55

hehe

maxjapank

Oceanic time zone and population balance on Azura's is in a really good place right now. Lots of fun fights.

Farorin

NativeJoe wrote: »

EP = Hive mind. Low skill levels by and large but can amass massive amounts of skyrim kidos to run around in rampaging bands and left unchecked they will turn the map red.

AD: Min maxers faction because they have the best racial sets in the game by default. Your less likly to run into rampaging bands of them, but should u push them back far enough you'll get the wrath of their elites and gank squads will be on the prowl hunting down respawners. seriously... like 60% of this group is NB's...if not more. Left unchecked...AD will not gather major raids and will instead succumb to their elitist nature and split off into small groups of gank squads and go AP or telvar stone farm. rarly when left alone will AD actually activly start taking keeps. ( my friend literally has a screen shot from one of his AD toons of 15 nightblades standing around in stealth around 1 guy sieging a keep. )

If you where DC, who would u go after?

I am AD, and I love this description of us.

DHale

NativeJoe wrote: »

EP = Hive mind. Low skill levels by and large but can amass massive amounts of skyrim kidos to run around in rampaging bands and left unchecked they will turn the map red.

AD: Min maxers faction because they have the best racial sets in the game by default. Your less likly to run into rampaging bands of them, but should u push them back far enough you'll get the wrath of their elites and gank squads will be on the prowl hunting down respawners. seriously... like 60% of this group is NB's...if not more. Left unchecked...AD will not gather major raids and will instead succumb to their elitist nature and split off into small groups of gank squads and go AP or telvar stone farm. rarly when left alone will AD actually activly start taking keeps. ( my friend literally has a screen shot from one of his AD toons of 15 nightblades standing around in stealth around 1 guy sieging a keep. )

If you where DC, who would u go after?

This may be the best post I have ever read on this forum... Sincere kudos!

KenaPKK

maxjapank wrote: »

Oceanic time zone and population balance on Azura's is in a really good place right now. Lots of fun fights.

I've been noticing this lately. It might be a good idea for ZoS to lower the population caps down to 3 bar level... Very little lag. People wouldn't like being forced to spread out between campaigns away from friends, but it would certainly improve PvP performance.

PhatGrimReaper

KenaPKK wrote: »

maxjapank wrote: »

Oceanic time zone and population balance on Azura's is in a really good place right now. Lots of fun fights.

I've been noticing this lately. It might be a good idea for ZoS to lower the population caps down to 3 bar level... Very little lag. People wouldn't like being forced to spread out between campaigns away from friends, but it would certainly improve PvP performance.

This^

I play US Primetime & Oceanic and the Aus/NZ time is by far more enjoyable due to game performance while still being action packed and competitive.

Waylander

Oceanic time is great.

Unfortunately for the last 4 days my ping has been too unstable to play even in Oceanic time (lets not mention NA prime which I feel is unplayable). 400-1600 ping is not enjoyable.

Van's group going DC has added a bit better balance to the timeslot with less overall map domination from AD.

maxjapank

Waylander wrote: »

Oceanic time is great.

Unfortunately for the last 4 days my ping has been too unstable to play even in Oceanic time (lets not mention NA prime which I feel is unplayable). 400-1600 ping is not enjoyable.

Van's group going DC has added a bit better balance to the timeslot with less overall map domination from AD.

Feel your pain. I disconnected 3-4 times last night. And I missed a big 4.5k tick at Chalman.

PhatGrimReaper

maxjapank wrote: »

Waylander wrote: »

Oceanic time is great.

Unfortunately for the last 4 days my ping has been too unstable to play even in Oceanic time (lets not mention NA prime which I feel is unplayable). 400-1600 ping is not enjoyable.

Van's group going DC has added a bit better balance to the timeslot with less overall map domination from AD.

Feel your pain. I disconnected 3-4 times last night. And I missed a big 4.5k tick at Chalman.

It's funny, I thought it was just me with the crazy lag/dc'ing... most of the late night Murican's don't seem to be getting it.....

*Tin Foil Hat Engaged*

Maybe they ninja nerfed the Oceanics?

Waylander

Yeah effecting a few people in our guild, but not others. Pretty odd.

Battle ping connects to Texas with a ping of about 210. In game 330-999+ and ping increases when fighting starts, but can be small scale. DC when 40+ people in close proximity.

Was fine last week. Seems ok in pve, some lag spikes.

Oceanics needed a nerf, 300 ping handicap was not enough.

Kelces

Reading the OP, you can almost certainly predict what the comments will be. Excuses everywhere, it's hilarious. Especially the lag thing, wow.

Skinzz

DC are lapdogs for AD. When AD needs help they ask DC to make an appearance.

Joking, not joking.

Humphie

Waylander wrote: »

Oceanic time is great.

Unfortunately for the last 4 days my ping has been too unstable to play even in Oceanic time (lets not mention NA prime which I feel is unplayable). 400-1600 ping is not enjoyable.

Van's group going DC has added a bit better balance to the timeslot with less overall map domination from AD.

I miss fighting the wedding dress and his group! Was our favorite group to fight with RAM. It just isn't the same anymore on DC.
@Vanzan, blue is not your color!